Barbara Bennett was born in 1923 in Oakland, California. She married John Bennett and started a family. In 1964 the Bennetts moved to Reno, and Barbara went to work for a telephone company. Injustice to herself and to others eventually led Barbara Bennett to become active in women's issues and ultimately to be instrumental in forming the Nevada Women's Political Caucus. Barbara Bennett founded the Nevada Homeowners Association, and through this group righted many of the wrongs associated with housing. In 1979 she ran for mayor of Reno and won.  In this oral history Mrs. Bennett provides a detailed history of the problems Washoe County and Reno faced in the 1970s to 1980s including discrimination in the workplace, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Nevada politics; and owning a home.

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